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According to multiple reports, Roy Oswalt is ready to sign a contract and join a major league team.

What had been the most pleasant of weekends for the Phillies took a seriously wrong turn Sunday at Busch Stadium.

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Chris Carpenter is scheduled to begin a lengthy rehabilitation process on Monday, as he will graduate from throwing a weighted ball into a net to throwing an actual baseball into an actual glove.

The Cardinals were shut out by Kyle Kendrick and the Phillies on Saturday evening at Busch Stadium and have fallen a game-and-a-half behind the Reds in the National League Central standings.

The ups and downs of the past year are starting to take their toll on Pirates fans everywhere, an emotional roller coaster that started like April and has continued during this Jekyll and Hyde season for the Bucs in 2012.A The Pirates are sitting at 21-24, 4.0 games out in the dilapidated N.L. Central - a division that is starting to resemble a ... (more)

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The team said the arthroscopic surgery found a partial tear in the medial meniscus, which was removed.

The St. Louis Cardinals ' starting rotation ranks in the top five of all of baseball entering play on Thursday, even without the presence of ace Chris Carpenter .

Anyone hoping the Cardinals upcoming series with the Phillies would be a dramatic rematch of the 2011 National League Championship is going to be sorely disappointed.

Philadelphia, PA - Maybe the expectations were a little too high for St. Louis right-hander Adam Wainwright coming out of spring training.

For a manager with no experience at any level, Mike Matheny was making the job of replacing a future Hall of Famer look easy.

As of today, the Cardinals have dropped four games in a row and are 2-8 in their last ten games.

Pitcher Chris Carpenter, center fielder Jon Jay and first basemen Lance Berkman and Allen Craig have all spent time on the DL so far.

A matchup between the Cardinals ' Lance Lynn and the Dodgers ' Ted Lilly doesn't immediately scream pitchers' duel, but they're both throwing like aces these days.

This weekend the Dodgers face their first team with an over-.500 record since the Nationals series.

Although the dominance of the St. Louis Cardinals ' pitchers has not really shown over the past week, the starting rotation and bullpen have been mainly dominant throughout a large part of this young 2012 season.

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As it commonly goes in sports, Cardinals new starter Lance Lynn is another prime example of the "next man up" scenario: when one player goes down, another fills the gap.

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With the recent promotions of players like Mike Trout and Bryce Harper to big league clubs , baseball fans are starting to wonder who will be the next rising stars to get the call.